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Editor: Rav Elder<br />
Editorial Assistant: Cliff Joseph<br />
Group Editor: Wendy J Palmer<br />
Sales Executive: Jonathan McGary<br />
Advertisement Manager: Barry Bingham<br />
Divisional Advertising Manager: Chris Northam<br />
Copy Controller: Sue Couchman<br />
Publishing Director: Peter Welham<br />
Chairman: T J Connell<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
welcome eM Areas 2Platform Jack. . 62<br />
Ye Editor introduces another tremendous<br />
issue<br />
Money Crabber ..10<br />
A taxing game for ZX8 1 owners.<br />
Readers' Reviews . 14<br />
Your chance to tell the software houses<br />
what YOU think.<br />
Child's Play 18<br />
We review an educational computer' for<br />
children.<br />
Software News .. 20<br />
What's happening in the software world.<br />
ASP FIGHTS SOFTWARE PIRACY<br />
Much ha* been Mid and written In condemnation of<br />
software piracy but taw have taken a positive stand<br />
against rt. ASP la among those few that have taken<br />
action to help curb the grave problem of home<br />
copying of commercial software<br />
ASP has already taken steps to eliminate<br />
advertisements In our magazine* which relate to<br />
tape duplication for piracy purpose*. While it is<br />
appreciated that Individuals may take 'back-up'<br />
copies of their own programs. It should be noted that<br />
h is ILLEGAL to copy commercialy avalabie<br />
software for other than personal use.<br />
Software piracy Is costing the software industry<br />
huge sums of money which Is detrimental to the<br />
future development of the industry. It Is in<br />
everybody's Interests to dramatically reduce the<br />
level of software piracy primarily because firms need<br />
funds raised from software sales to plough back into<br />
research and development of new products. This<br />
means that the standard of software products can<br />
only improve.<br />
ASP hopes our action wIN help combat this<br />
serious problem in order to maintain and improve the<br />
high standards of the UK software industry. We are<br />
asking you to do the same by refraining from<br />
duplicating or copying commercially available<br />
software lor anything other than personal use.<br />
4<br />
A mathematical aid for the ZX81 .<br />
Tasword Meets the<br />
FX80 28<br />
How to expand your printer's<br />
capabilities.<br />
Across the Pond . . 32<br />
More news from America.<br />
A Present from uncle<br />
Clive 35<br />
Dig out your old 'Horizons tapes and use<br />
our new routines.<br />
10 Test<br />
How high do you score?<br />
Hardware News .. 50<br />
All ihe latest goodies for your computer.<br />
Quicksort 52<br />
What's new for the Spectrum? Clive<br />
Smith tells all.<br />
Competition 56<br />
Attention ZX8 1 owners, this one's for<br />
you.<br />
Spectrum Education<br />
60<br />
Mike Edmunds puts some Educational<br />
software to the test.<br />
Come On in 67<br />
Welcome to our special Adventure<br />
section.<br />
The ings of Threek 68<br />
A timely adventufe for the ZX81<br />
Creating an<br />
Adventure Brain .73<br />
Part 1 of a series on how to create your<br />
own Adventures.<br />
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